Teacher resources, ELA

English Language Arts resources

• General Language Arts
  • Web English Teacher - Very extensive guide to language arts sites and lesson plans.

• Literature
  • The Doucette Index to K-12 Teaching Ideas for Literature - Search by title, author or illustrator for teaching ideas on the web or in printed materials. This is the place to start to find teaching suggestions if you have a specific book in mind.
  • SCORE CyberGuides - CyberGuide's link books for students from K-12 to activities on the World Wide Web. These supplementary lessons include objectives, tasks and rubics for assessment. This is an excellent way to enhance student interest in reading and the internet.
  • More Ideas than You'll Ever Use for Book Reports - Hundreds of them.
  • 100 Things to do with Books - Many ideas for ways to improve on the book report.
  • 25 Ideas for Better Book Reports - Article from Education World
  • Teacher Services - From Random House, Bantam, Doubleday, Dell. Ideas for teaching Young Adult literature with books from these publishers.
  • Page by Page: Creating a Children's Book - This excellent site takes you step by step through the creation of the book Zoom Upstream, written by Tim Wynn-Jones and illustrated by Eric Beddows. The site visitor will learn how the author got his ideas, how the illustrator drew the pictures, and how the publishing company prepared the manuscript for publication. By the National Library of Canada.
  • @13 Exciting Reading Activities - Activities to promote the use of books from the Children's Book Council.
  • The Project Gutenberg Homepage - Directory of all books stored electronically. These books may be read online or downloaded to your computer.
  • The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919 edition - The whole book is now online and searchable. You can also locate poems by author, title, and first line.
  • Online American Literature Resources - Extensive list of links for American literature from Colonial period to 1865.
  • The International Reading Association
  • Yahoo's Literature Index
  • The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection - from the University of Southern Mississippi.

• Other Language Arts
  • Language Arts Lesson Plans - From the Awesome Library. Many, many lesson plans for k-12 language arts classes.
  • The Write Site - By combining journalism, writing and technology, this site is designed to improve middle school students language arts skills.
  • TampaReads - Over 800 worksheets for K-4 (or remedial) reading, vocabulary and phonics.